Dogs on guard
Guarding people and property requires much the same attributes as those needed for guarding sheep and cattle, strength, courage, loyalty and obedience. Police dogs are trained to intimidate attack and hold fast to assailants. Padding protects the confederate victims from the dog’s fangs. Louis Doberman, tax collector from the 19th century, used local animals to breed a dog that would guard the cash that he carried. And a very fine dog he bred; proud, elegant, fast and fearless. No breed makes a better watchdog or police dog. Doberman Pinschers have a short black, brown or blue coat with rusty markings.
The Rottweiler and the Boxer, both German dogs, make powerful guards. Rottweilers were originally used to protect herds of cattle but nowadays they are trained in the police and mountain rescue work. Boxers are mastiffs, once used to hunt bears and then guard cattle. They make fearsome watch dogs. Boxers, Rottweilers and Dobermans all have their tails docked short.
As the need for dogs to guard cattle has largely died out the characteristics that brought the cattle dogs work have largely become redundant. Dogs, such as the Bouveir des Flanders from Belgium and the Giant Schnauzer from Bavaria, look fierce and are powerful. But whereas both formerly had farm work to do, today they are largely kept as pets.
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